It's a free country, you have every right to be dead wrong, but you get called on it.

You may feel that you need civil servants watching over every step. I don't. Building codes, civil servants have never CREATED anything new of value. Open competition with the potential of monetary reward has a demonstrated track record of creating value.

NASA has proven time and again that even with half a TRILLION dollars the best it can do is SkyLab II, while killing astronauts time and again in the process. A rational person might begin to think "Gee maybe we should try a different approach".

-p (insanity - doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result)